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curbs, gutters and roadbed and street improvements, which certificates
when paid shall be cancelled and properly kept and filed among the papers
of said town, a record of which certificates thus cancelled shall be entered
upon a book kept for the purpose aforesaid; and the Treasurer of said
Town shall be bonded in amount equal to the amount of money borrowed
by the Town and the Clerk of said Town, for the purposes of this Act,
shall be bonded in amount left to the discretion of the Mayor and Council.

1927, ch. 178, sec. 13.

251. When the Mayor and Common Council shall have determined to
make sidewalks, curbs, gutters or roadbed and street improvements, or all
or any in any street in said town, they shall thereupon notify, as far as
practicable, each property owner upon said street proposed to be improved,
by depositing said notice in the United States Post Office addressed to such
owner's last known address, and publish notice thereof in the next suc-
ceeding issue of one or more of the papers having general circulation with-
in the Town of Colmar Manor, setting forth that on a certain day to be
named therein, the Mayor and Council will meet and notify said owners
to appear at said meeting and express their views upon the question or
show cause, if any there be, why the said improvements should not be
made, and the decision made by the Mayor and Council at this meeting
shall be final and conclusive; provided, however, that no improvement
shall be made under this Act on any street without the consent of fifty-
one per centum of the front foot abutting property owners affected on the
street which it is proposed to improve.

1927, ch. 178, sec. 14.

'252. The Mayor and Council are hereby authorized to make such side-
walks, curbs, gutters, roadbed and street improvements as determined by
them in accordance with the previous section, and where work is done
under contract the Mayor and Council shall invite proposals for said work
by advertisement for two weeks in some newspaper having general circu-
lation in Colmar Manor, at such reasonable cost for said advertising, to
be paid out of the fund provided by this Act, as the Mayor and Council
shall determine, and the said Mayor and Council shall, in all cases, award
the contract for such work to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, re-
serving at all times the right to reject any and all bids received. All con-
tractors for such street improvements shall give bond in such sum as the
Mayor and Council shall require, with sufficient surety or sureties, to be
approved by the Mayor and Council, for the faithful performance of their
contract. The Mayor and Council shall employ a competent engineer at
such compensation as may be determined by them in carrying out the
objects of this Act.

1927, ch 178, sec. 15

253. The Mayor and Council shall have the same power as the State
Board of Health, within the boundaries of the said town. They may adopt